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NordicFuzzCon @nordicfuzzcon.org · 04/02/2026

Incominciate! The Nordic Opera returns for #NFC2026! Pawgliacci is an original adaptation of Leoncavallo’s masterpiece, featuring a 20-piece orchestra to debut this furry production at the incredible Malmö Live Concert Hall stage! An experience you can't miss! 🎨 Octomono

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

took a break from me for 2 years and now i dont recognize the neighborhood

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/11/2025

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani wins the New York City mayoral race, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4nIzNUC

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

Some people celebrate Doevember, I celebrate Yotevember myself Happis Yotevember y'all 🤎

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Were you NOT stopping before ???

A screenshot on an excerpt from an article about the construction of new two-way bike lanes in downtown San Antonio. The excerpt reads:

"This is a push by the anti-car crowd to make it miserable for you to drive, to make you have to stop at all the lights, to make you have less road space, and to snarl up traffic," Hall said.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

They do put their research out in publications and presentations, I presume it's everything they've cataloged and analyzed up to now shumla.org/research/pub... shumla.org/research/pre...

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

That's a great question. I know the Alexandria Project is hosted through Shumla Archeological Research & Educational Center, so I assume they hold the copyright of any data they collect. I don't know what kind of copyright it'd be though.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The White Shaman Mural (and the Lower Pecos Canyonland Archeological Complex) is so cool Like this is increasingly believed to depict both an origin of the cosmos and the people, as well as a map of sacred sites from that location, particularly the sacred journey along the springs of Central Texas

A screenshot of a presentation, where they are mapping features of the White Shaman Mural to physical landmarks in Texas

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Even though the map interpretation of the White Shaman Mural is controversial with some in academia, it is still very popular publically, and the research is still fresh, and is still blossoming into a very interesting lens which to view the pre-European (and post-European) Texas and its peoples

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I'm like really fixated on this part of the mural tonight because it was so cool for me to mentally make that connection while viewing it again

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

They shared sacred sites and the Lower Pecos sites could be a point of pilgrimage and/or meetings for regional peoples, like the Council Oaks in whats now Austin were known to be. Distance from the springs doesn't mean anything necessarily and that's not a great reason to discount this new research.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The pre-European peoples of Texas were also far more interconnected than was assumed. Archeologists have defined a Toyah material culture that was shared among many peoples of the Texas region.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

www.researchgate.net/publication/... This is a really interesting piece of research (& the first I believe) to posit the interpretation Also "Land of the Tejas" by John W. Arnn III goes into the interconnectiveness of the regional peoples of pre-European (and even post) Texas, for further reading

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(PDF) Written on Stone and Practiced on the Landscape: Pre-contact Native American Cosmovision and the Sacred Landscape of the Edwards Plateau

PDF | Recent advances in the analysis and interpretation of the White Shaman mural, a Lower Pecos Style rock art panel in Val Verde County, Texas, has... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Recent theoretical research has suggested the Indigenous peoples of whats now Texas were much more interconnected than people have assumed. This region is a special crossroads, as one academic put it, "the Crossroads of North America", and people shared sacred sites

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And I say until consensus swings either way because the research on this is still very fresh, yet very promising; and there will be skeptical established voices in academia about this new interpretation. I also do not think it is unreasonable to have a ceremonial site of pilgrimage like this either

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

But I will admit, while reading about the history of studies the complex just now, I found a Texas Monthly article from last month about the academic controversy of the map interpretation. Irregardless, it's still very popular, and until consensus swings one way or the other, I choose to believe it

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's been studied since the 1930s by the Witte Museum, but it feels like it's only grown so known in the last decade. I think it's because the work of Carolyn Boyd and her cohort have drawn a lot of attention to the complex, in a good way

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

(i also added alt text on all the photos of the mural that hopefully can elucidate somethings :3) ALSO since this is the last comment in the chain (for now) When I said "northernmost extent of Mesoamerica" I meant POSSIBLY the northernmost extent, for clarification

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

interjection into my thread, which you should totally read the rest of past this reply, but to add something: The White Shaman Mural has been interpreted as POSSIBLY the northernmost known reach of Mesoamerica Crazy how you miss a word and the implication is way different

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And who's to say this site doesn't also depict a progenitor cosmology to more peoples than just the Huichol, Nahua, and Coahuiltecans? Those are just the links that appear now, but in time more connections could be made. The research on this is really, just beginning.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

(the site also gets input from Indigenous peoples as part of their study, and one of the people working there, Gary Perez, is part of the Lipan Apache Native American Church, and I believe was actually the one who had the thought of the mural also being a physical map and got that ball rolling)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

(this also may mean that Coahuiltecans have shared history with say, the Nahua and vice versa, through an ancestor culture, or perhaps even directly)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And contemporary-day Nahua, Huichol, and Coahuiltecan peoples could all benefit from the work at this site towards understandings of their own histories, and a place to connect physically with their past

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

(or perhaps its that Aridoamerican peoples carried these traditions into Mesoamerica, but that's my chump ruminating)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Anyways my final point from this is that it has huge implications for historical study in the region and contemporary peoples (!) The White Shaman Mural has been interpreted as the northernmost known reach of Mesoamerica

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Sadly a portion of the complex has been consumed by the Amistad International Resevoir along the US-Mexico border and the Rio Grande, but there's still much of the complex that's above water on both sides of the border (!)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Very interesting stuff! (!!!) There is a project called the Alexandria Project which is currently attempting to catalog as many of the Lower Pecos pictographs as possible, as it is practically a library, and that project is in a race against time against water erosion and vandalism

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Napakō ("Our Journey" as I understand it) myth as I've heard it recited involves a being who tosses her head into the sky and becomes the Moon, 'Ānua'. But this also reminds me of a Nahua myth of Huítzilópóchtli beheading Coyolxáuhqui, and tossing her head into the sky to become the Moon.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's also believed to depict a cosmological myth that would later be inherited by the Nahua and Huichol peoples, but also the Coahuiltecans of what is now Texas and Northeastern Mexico. Of particular interest to me is the Moon Goddess portion which reminds me of the Coahuiltecan 'Napakō' (cont.)

This portion of the mural is believed to depict a Moon Goddess, who is depicted here as decapitated. The white figure stands next to a black figure; I believe the black figure is one of the primordial ancestors, and the white figure is the Moon Goddess she became.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

White Shaman is believed to have been intricately planned due to the materials needed and the time frame in which this was all painted. It would have required scaffolding and has intricate motifs that all tie together cohesively; leading some at the site to call it the earliest book in the Americas

A photo of the totality of the White Shaman Mural. It's much taller than you may suspect, with the mural going as high as 13 feet. The totality of it is believed to depict the birth of time. The tall and elaborate people-like figures here have also been interpreted as the primordial ancestors during the sacred journey at the beginning of time, and the Divinities they became.

This portion is believed to represent Dawn Mountain in both Huichol and Nahua cosmologies, where the sun first rose. The figure with antlers standing on the mountain is believed to be the sacred deer that lead the primordial ancestors to Dawn Mountain, and who in Huichol traditions was sacrificed for the sun to rise.

This portion is believed to represent the Mother Goddess, who is interpreted by people working at the site as having serpent and catfish like characteristics. This is apparently a depiction shared by Huichol traditions. It is also interpreted that the Mother Goddess may be meeting the sun at midday. The white line that runs throughout this mural may also be the path of the sun, or to further interpret on that, the path that ancestors, the sun, and Divinites travel. The Mother Goddess as painted here is also six feet tall, not to say that's her exact height but rather she is depicted as either being very large or perhaps, more metaphorically prominent, but this last sentence is just me ruminating.

This portion is believed to depict the underworld, and it is located on a part of the rock wall where there is water seeping out. It's likely the underworld was intentionally painted here as to depict the watery underworld; which the Nahua and Coahuiltecans both have a tradition of. (The Huichol also may, I am not so versed in that though). Another connection is possibly the caterpillar like being, and the nine bulges on that rectangular motif, both of which are associated with the underworld in Nahua traditions. (Specifically the number nine, rather, not the whole rectangle motif)

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

And like, the White Shaman Mural has been dated to around 2000~ BCE; but the history of occupancy at the site goes back 12000~ years. The Lower Pecos complex may be the site with the most pictographs in North America, and many of the rock art is consistently of high quality, especially White Shaman

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

one of my favorite things to do to people as a crypto-ethnic is to reveal to people I bat both ways because like anglo-americans will get a "latina is speaking listen and learn" disposition and mexicans will be like "oh you're also in the club, awesome"

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

this theatre showing not one but two chainsaw man trailers in between family oriented movies has to be a recession indicator

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

anyways people are suing and calling for a re-evalutation of the developer's environmental quality permit 🙏 Two local scientists I had the pleasure of hanging out with yesterday 'affectionately' pronounced TCEQ as "trainwreck"

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

yeah if it was like, less than four miles to the southwest it'd be in the recharge zone and subject to regulations; but because SAWS can't run piping out to it (because they don't have a permit), and TCEQ okay'd it, now there's the possibility of damaging the water supplies for 2.6~ million people

A map of the Helotes Creek watershed. The red star denotes the location of Guajolote Ranch and the planned subdivision to be built on it. There's a big light blue colored zone that runs along the bottom part of the map; that's the recharge zone for the Edwards Aquifer; Guajolote Ranch isn't far from it, but because the Edwards Aquifer Authority has much less regulations in place for the Drainage Zone (or as it's called in this map, the Contributing Zone), where water runs off into the Recharge Zone, there's little that agency can do.

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

and like, the EXACT spot the Guajolote Ranch subdivision is being built on has no environmental regulations, that they need to be beholden to anyways (my understanding is because its located in the drainage area of the aquifer, not the recharge zone). If it were literally like a mile more south...

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

SAWS couldn't even run piping out to this development if they wanted to because its on unorganized county land and SAWS itself needs a permit for that; and apparently the real estate developer just decided it was cheaper to build a mini wastewater treatment than just building piping

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

TCEQ is such a rubber stamp agency Me when I'm the commission on environmental quality and I give the ok 👍 to a high density subdivision for them to pump a million gallons of wastewater into a critical aquifer recharge zone

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🕯 @amuleto.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

did not expect the morning radio to be talking about "big anime tatas" today

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